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>greatest empire known to man
Lol. Not then. Just some shithole colonies along the American seaboard. Greatest empire known to Man was later.
The real problem was no English would volunteer to fight kith and kin and the public was sympathetic to the rebels. Also we had real wars going on at the time with France who pose a real invasion risk.
Get a sense of proportion. What matters is trade and people not precisely whether the governor of a colony is answerable to the far-away king or Freemasons in Washington.